Playing doctor is an important part of the of the grandma act. An aunt treated a son's high fever with a laxative. He had typhoid fever, know to cause intestinal ulcerations. The laxative's violence resulted in perforations, peritonotis and the boy's demise.
________________________________ From: Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão This is typical of 'grandmother's medicine'. To treat a fever with antipyretics without knowing the cause.
